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#202031 - 02/02/2004 15:34 Oh dear
CrackersMcCheese
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Registered: 14/01/2002
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#202032 - 02/02/2004 15:35 Re: Oh dear [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
tfabris
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Registered: 20/12/1999
Posts: 31565
Loc: Seattle, WA
As Blue said in response to the article: "Engineering geek names son version 2.0. Bullies already plan first beating."
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#202033 - 02/02/2004 15:39 Re: Oh dear [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
m6400
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Registered: 18/09/2002
Posts: 188
Loc: Erie, PA
So will their second child be 2.1? Did the baby go through alpha and beta testing while it was still in internal development?
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#202034 - 02/02/2004 15:39 Re: Oh dear [Re: tfabris]
Cybjorg
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Registered: 23/12/2002
Posts: 652
Loc: Winston Salem, NC
It sounds like Version 2.0's shorts need an "up-grade" right up the ol' crack.

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#202035 - 02/02/2004 15:45 Re: Oh dear [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
wfaulk
carpal tunnel

Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
Version 1.0 obviously has some serious bugs.
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#202036 - 02/02/2004 16:13 Re: Oh dear [Re: wfaulk]
blitz
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Registered: 20/11/2001
Posts: 455
Loc: Texas
This is why you shouldn't name your kids after yourself.

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#202037 - 02/02/2004 16:35 Re: Oh dear [Re: blitz]
g_attrill
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Registered: 14/04/2002
Posts: 1172
Loc: Hants, UK
And *think* about what you name your kids and how it sounds.

There was an Staffordshire MP who's surname "Mycock" was unfortunate enough, but his parent's decision to give him the first name of "Ramon" was unforgiveable.

His profile page has now been updated with what I presume is a middle name but some proof is here (No.5).

Gareth

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#202038 - 02/02/2004 17:49 Re: Oh dear [Re: g_attrill]
butter
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Registered: 07/03/2002
Posts: 211
Loc: State side
Barrie Mycock isn't much better.
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#202039 - 02/02/2004 18:04 Re: Oh dear [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
AndrewT
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Registered: 16/02/2002
Posts: 867
Loc: Oxford, UK
<rant>
I've never quite come to terms with people appending "Jnr" or "Snr" to their children's names; it's always struck me that the parents were pre-empting some kind of identity crisis when naming their children and that they really should get over it!

Using version numbers is, I think, quite a satirical way of going about it. Who knows, parents could pre-empt the number of children they were going to conceive and we really will end up with Billy Bob 7 of 9 someday
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#202040 - 02/02/2004 18:43 Re: Oh dear [Re: AndrewT]
andy
carpal tunnel

Registered: 10/06/1999
Posts: 5914
Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK
At least with 2.0 vs. Junior we end up with uniquely named different generations. Perhaps we should just skip straight to GUID values for names...

"Hello, my name is {42B8E97B-649E-44BB-BE7E-CCF3DD022C53} Norman, come and meet my son {AA6197A2-A02A-4847-AC7D-4C9FD63BEE90} Norman"

Create your next child's name.
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#202041 - 02/02/2004 19:48 Re: Oh dear [Re: g_attrill]
wfaulk
carpal tunnel

Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
I had an English professor named Rod Cockshoot.
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#202042 - 02/02/2004 21:33 Re: Oh dear [Re: wfaulk]
Heather
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Registered: 14/01/2002
Posts: 510
Loc: NY
I had an English professor named Rod Cockshoot.

My pediatrician's name was Dr Dick Weiner. his parents must have hated him.
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#202043 - 02/02/2004 23:47 Re: Oh dear [Re: andy]
canuckInOR
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Registered: 13/02/2002
Posts: 3212
Loc: Portland, OR
I think I'm going to name my future children by the MD5 sum of their DNA sequence.

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#202044 - 03/02/2004 16:19 Re: Oh dear [Re: Heather]
JBjorgen
carpal tunnel

Registered: 19/01/2002
Posts: 3582
Loc: Columbus, OH
I had a psych teacher at a fundamentalist Christian university named Dick N. Hand.

Then again, the registrar's name was Mr. Christ...it was cool to see his parking spot in front of the Administration building.
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#202045 - 03/02/2004 16:22 Re: Oh dear [Re: CrackersMcCheese]
Ezekiel
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Registered: 25/08/2000
Posts: 2413
Loc: NH USA
I'm pretty sure that kid will get ass-kicking 1.0 at the playground.

What morons.

-Zeke
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#202046 - 03/02/2004 16:26 Re: Oh dear [Re: Ezekiel]
russmeister
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Registered: 14/07/2002
Posts: 344
Loc: South Carolina
I'm pretty sure that kid will get ass-kicking 1.0 at the playground.

Followed by 2.0 after they perfect the first version by passing it out to multiple beta users.
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#202047 - 03/02/2004 16:30 Re: Oh dear [Re: JBjorgen]
wfaulk
carpal tunnel

Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
I had a psych teacher at a fundamentalist Christian university named Dick N. Hand.
Sometimes a dick is just a dick.
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#202048 - 03/02/2004 16:43 Re: Oh dear [Re: wfaulk]
boxer
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Registered: 16/04/2002
Posts: 2011
Loc: Yorkshire UK
I used to deal with a guy called Ivor Dick.
Come to think of it, and along slightly different lines, I had an accountant called Ewart Joy, who married a girl with Joy for a Christian name, giving her a married name of "Joy Joy".
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